Ositech comm 614006-001 - Manual (Page 22)

3 - 2 Trumpcard Ethernet LAN
Section Three
Socket Services and Card Services
Your computer having Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association (PCMCIA) support allows you to insert credit card-sized
devices called PC Cards. The PCMCIA standard defines both a hardware
and software standard. The software standard identifies two specifications
which are called Socket Services and Card Services.
Socket Services provides lowest level support by providing a common
interface to varying types of PCMCIA adapter hardware. Card Services
provides support for PCMCIA aware device drivers (known as clients), and
is responsible for coordinating access to the PC Cards and allocating
system resources among client drivers
.
Ositech's Trumpcard software is PCMCIA aware and will work with most
Socket Services and Card Services available, that conform to the PCMCIA
2.x standard. The Trumpcard software will operate as a client driver when
used with Card Services, and can coexist with other client drivers (i.e.
Super Clients, Flash, ATA, ...). When operating with Card and Socket
Services the Trumpcard software will support hot removal and insertion of
the PC Card.
If Card Services is not detected by the Trumpcard software but Socket
Services is, then the software will operate with Socket Services only.
Support for Socket Services is provided to allow for differing types of
PCMCIA hardware to be used by the Trumpcard software, but the full
range of features will not be supported (mainly hot removal/insertion).
It is also possible to use the Trumpcard software without Card Services or
Socket Services but, as with only using Socket Services, the full range of
features will not be supported. If your computer did not come equipped
with Card and Socket Services, contact your computer manufacturer or
dealer for more details.
Multi-Function Configuration
If the Trumpcard you are using provides other functions in addition to
Ethernet networking, please refer to the
Installation Manual accompanying
the Trumpcard. Details on how to enable and use all the functions
provided on the Trumpcard will be discussed in that manual.